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Under whose feet, subjected to his grace,
Sit nature, fortune, motion, time and place.

— Torquato Tasso Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

Ha sotto i piedi il Fato e la Natura,
Ministri umíli, e 'l moto, e chi 'l misura.

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Canto IX, stanzas 56–57 (tr. Edward Fairfax)

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Too dark the place and too inscrutable
where mortal men their deepest thoughts control.

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